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LXIV
WINDOWS OF THE CHURCH
III. ST. LUKE
Here standeth Luke, Physician once, and still;
Healer of souls whom God delights to save;
Wise-eyed in helpfulness; in pity brave;
For all diseases using blessèd skill;
To halt, maimed, blind, beneficent; until
From town obscure by Galilean wave
Flashed forth the Day-Star, born of God, and gave
New life to suppliants with a sweet “I will.”
At whose appearing Luke was straightly dumb,
Lost in the greater Light; nor found it hard;
But knelt and worshippèd; and afterward
For thy monition, O Theophilus,
Wrote large his gospel, and for help of us,
On whom the last days of the world are come.
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